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Screen legend Durga Khote in the starring role, still from Seeta (1934).  ]]
Screen legend Durga Khote in the starring role, still from Seeta (1934).  ]]
'''''Seeta''''' was a 1933 Indian [[talkie]] [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]], directed by [[Debaki Bose]] and produced by the [[East India Film Company]].<ref name="SoManyCinemas">{{cite book |title=So many cinemas: the motion picture in India|author=Bhagwan Das Garg|publisher=Eminence Designs|year=1996|isbn=81-900602-1-X |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXRZAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> It won an honorary diploma in the [[2nd Venice International Film Festival]] in 1934, becoming the first [[Cinema of India|Indian talkie]] to be shown at an international [[film festival]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/1934 |title = Venice Film Festival (1934)}}</ref> The film starred [[Gul Hamid]], [[Prithviraj Kapoor]] as [[Rama]], and [[Durga Khote]] as [[Sita]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157008/ |title = Seeta}}</ref>
'''''Seeta''''' was a 1933 Indian [[talkie]] [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]], directed by [[Debaki Bose]] and produced by the [[East India Film Company]].<ref name="SoManyCinemas">{{cite book |title=So many cinemas: the motion picture in India|author=Bhagwan Das Garg|publisher=Eminence Designs|year=1996|isbn=81-900602-1-X |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXRZAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> It won an honorary diploma in the [[2nd Venice International Film Festival]] in 1934, becoming the first [[Cinema of India|Indian talkie]] to be shown at an international [[film festival]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Madhuja |title=Voices of the Talking Stars: Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond |date=2 January 2017 |publisher=SAGE Publications India |isbn=978-93-81345-22-1 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6zqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |language=en}}</ref> The film starred [[Gul Hamid]], [[Prithviraj Kapoor]] as [[Rama]], [[Durga Khote]] as [[Sita]] and [[Trilok Kapoor]] as [[Luv]].


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== External links ==
== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|id=tt0157008}}
* [https://indiancine.ma/BNI/info Seeta (1934)] on indiancine.ma
* [https://indiancine.ma/BNI/info Seeta (1934)] on indiancine.ma


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Screen legend Durga Khote in the starring role, still from Seeta (1934).

Seeta was a 1933 Indian talkie Bengali film, directed by Debaki Bose and produced by the East India Film Company.[1] It won an honorary diploma in the 2nd Venice International Film Festival in 1934, becoming the first Indian talkie to be shown at an international film festival.[2] The film starred Gul Hamid, Prithviraj Kapoor as Rama, Durga Khote as Sita and Trilok Kapoor as Luv.

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  1. Bhagwan Das Garg (1996). So many cinemas: the motion picture in India. Eminence Designs. p. 86. ISBN 81-900602-1-X.
  2. Mukherjee, Madhuja (2 January 2017). Voices of the Talking Stars: Women of Indian Cinema and Beyond. SAGE Publications India. p. 103. ISBN 978-93-81345-22-1.

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